Mediaboss Marketing

June 19, 2012, 8:48 AM PDT

Takeaway: You can delete a problematic AutoCorrect entry or you can try this case shuffling trick to have your cake and eat it too.

Words AutoCorrect feature is helpful, most of the time. When users run into a problem, they usually delete the AutoCorrect item. For instance, if you routinely enter TEH, you could delete the AutoCorrect item that corrects TEH to THE-eliminating the problem altogether.

Deleting the item wont always be the right choice, however. The copyright symbol is a good example of an item thats useful, but that can create an unusual problem. Lets suppose you enter the phrase 501(c) a lot. Words AutoCorrect feature automatically replaces (c) with the copyright symbol (). You can press [Ctrl]+Z, but that gets old after awhile. You could delete the AutoCorrect item, but then you cant use it to enter a copyright symbol.

You dont have to choose, but the solution isnt intuitive. The AutoCorrect item will replace the (c) combo whether the c is lower or upper case. By adjusting the existing item to replace only (C), you can keep the AutoCorrect entry and also still enter the literal string (c). To make this change, do the following:

Now you have a reasonable compromise. You can type (c) without triggering the AutoCorrect change, and to enter the copyright symbol, you type (C). You can use the upper/lower case shuffle in most cases where you need to enter an AutoCorrect replace value without triggering AutoCorrect.

If you accidentally delete the actual symbol from the AutoCorrect list, you can re-enter it by holding down the [Alt] key while pressing 0169 on your numeric keyboard. (Press [NumLock] first.)

More here:
Tweak an annoying AutoCorrect entry instead of deleting it outright